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Glomerulus
Glomerulus meaning
A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine | A structure in the olfactory bulb central to olfactory sensory transduction, composed of receptor neuron axons and mitral neuron dendrites and organized by odor type. | Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
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At these elevated levels, angiotensin II also constricts the afferent arteriole into the glomerulus in addition to the efferent arteriole it normally constricts.
Each glomerulus has a mossy fiber rosette at its center, and up to 20 granule cell dendritic claws contacting it.
The afferent arterioles form the glomerulus (network of capillaries enclosed in Bowman's capsule ).